Question

I’m writing unit tests on a backbone.js view and I’m trying to test whether the events are set properly. Is there a way I can do this?

I’m also using jQuery so I’ve tried $(view.el).data().events but nothing is bound there.

Answer 1

Yep, you can use jquery to test to see if an event is wired up by looking at the events key in the data object like so:

$('#yourElementToTest').data('events')

This all will work, if and only if the view has been attached to the dom.

Hope this helps,
MatthewJ

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Update: In jQuery 1.8 the API for this has changed to:

$._data(element, "events")

See this issue